ZIP 04453 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Penobscot County, Maine's ZIP 04453 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. On the structural side it scores 57/100, with 5/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (79/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (57/100), structural risk (57/100), institutional ownership (35/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (35/100) and mortgage stress (17/100).

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, 2.9% off the recent peak (phase confidence 44/100). Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

Vacancy runs 17.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 406 housing units across 04453. Population is roughly 839 with a median age of 44. Around 29% of renters are cost-burdened. At $43,839, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 20.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $134,800 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). Around 7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. On demographic stress specifically, 04453 scores 31/100.

Net-net, 04453 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 04453 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 04453's 26/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 04453 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 26/100 for 04453 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 04453 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.